August 19 “Essence of Time” unit in Donbass report

For the past night Ukrainian military fired 234 artillery, rocket, tank and mortar shells at frontline Donetsk People’s Republic regions. Zaytsevo village north of Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Spartak, Trudovskie and Aleksandrovka villages, Kirovsky district of Donetsk, Elenovka and Styla near Dokuchaevsk, Petrovskoye, Novolaspa, Belaya Kamenka, Novaya Marevka, Kominternovo, Leninskoye and Sakhanka villages in the south of DPR came under fire.

Yesterday as a result of shelling a fire erupted on the territory of Donetsk water filtration plant, situated between Yasinovataya and occupied Avdeevka. The plant supplies Donetsk and a number of villages on the both sides of the frontline with water and is regularly shelled by Ukrainian army. Low pressure in water supply systems is being observed in the last couple of days in several districts of Donetsk.

The roof of school № 103, gas pipeline and a house on Karnavalnaya street were damaged by artillery fire in Petrovsky district of Donetsk. The facades and glass in windows of apartment buildings on Biriuzovaya street were damaged in Kirovsky district of Donetsk. Houses and power lines on two streets of Styla village were damaged. Artillery fire damaged the roof and windows of several houses in Novolaspa village.

Ukrainian punitive forces fired 3805 shells at DPR territory over the past week. Out of these, 3308 times heavy weaponry was used. Ukrainian army fire damaged and destroyed 72 houses. Six people died as a result of Ukrainian aggression, five of them were servicemen, another six were injured.